"Indiana Gaming Insight" newsletter

Today: "Indiana Gaming Insight" and "Legislative Insight" editor Ed Feigenbaum joins us for an update on gaming issues, including expansion at Blue Chip Casino in Michigan City and the August casinos revenue report. He'll also cover the latest in the "too-close-to-call" U.S.

Today: A conversation with Ed Feigenbaum, editor of "Indiana Gaming Insight" and "Indiana Legislative Insight" newsletters, on the latest news from the gaming industry in the Hoosier State, including the northwest Indiana casinos for the first half of 2018, and some updates on Hoosier politics.

Today: A conversation with Holly Passi, the licensed clinical psychologist at Jesse Brown VA Medical Center in Chicago, about post traumatic distress disorder (which is now being known sinply as PTS). Passi wjoins other health care professionals at the facility in helping veterans and their families deal with their trauma. This month is national PTSD Awareness Month.

Today: Ed Feigenbaum, the editor and publisher of "Indiana Gaming Insight" and "Indiana Political Insight" newsletters, joins us to review how Indiana casinos -- including the Northwest Indiana boats -- did in February. (Spoiler Alert: they're all hoping for a better month of March.) Ed also talks about the 2018 General Assembly session, its successes and its failures -- especially in the final hours of the regular session. Lawmakers are preparing for a short, special session in May.

Today: A conversation with former Gary Mayor Scott King, now an attorney in northwest Indiana and a consultant. He talks about his years in office as well as the changes in economic development that he's seen take place since being at Gary City Hall.

We bring you another conversation from the Welcome Project at Valparaiso University. The project collets first-person stories and pairs these with intentional conversation to help forge stronger ties within and across our communities.

The editor and publisher of "Indiana Gaming Insight" newsletter, Ed Feigenbaum, was on "Regionally Speaking" on Tuesday to talk about the latest news about the northwest Indiana casinos. He went into detail about an Indiana Gaming Commission meeting this Thursday in Indianapolis that, if approved, could mean a major change at the Ameristar Casino in East Chicago.

The Pokagon Band of Potowatomi Indians is planning to open its newest casino in northern Indiana in 2018, and officials across the state are already concerned about the economic impact that it will have.

"Indiana Gaming Insight" newsletter editor-publisher Ed Feigenbaum was on "Regionally Speaking" on Wednesday to talk about it -- he began the conversation with a historical note: in 2007, the tribe opened the Four Winds Casino Resort across the state line in Michigan and not far from Michigan City's Blue Chip Casino.

Today: a conversation with Valparaiso's new Police Chief Jeff Balon. Mayor Jon Costas recently promoted Balon, who was the head of the Police Department's investigations division, to the department's top leadership post. Balon took over as head of the department when Michael Brickner, the only police chief to serve during Costas' 14-year tenure as mayor, left to become executive director of Porter County's newly created Emergency Communications and Public Safety Department.